ON SOME WORKBENCHES.

Illinois Railway Museum have restored Ingersoll Rand boxcab diesel 91, one of the first commercially successful 300 horsepower switching locomotives, to its original trucks.  There's still more to do for a proper cosmetic restoration, although having it running again isn't outside the realm of the possible.

Some years ago I posted a comparison of museum projects and home modelling projects, most of which are at about the same stage then as they are now.  There's an Ingersoll-Rand boxcab in a similar status.

That's a rudimentary form of the "China drive" with each can motor turning one axle and the second axle chain driven off the first.  I've tested it, it runs, and everything is synchronized.  There is room for a contemporary command control module in there.

Those are the radiator headers and cooling pipes, and, yes, I intend to build them up.  I did get a picture of the roof of 91 to compare notes.